Challenges for energy efficiency in local and regional data centers

Journal of Green Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-32

  Koutitas, G ^a   Demestichas, P ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL HELLENIC UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Data center carbon footprint computation; Data center design; Energy efficiency of data center; Energy efficient metrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049367115     PISSN: 19044720     EISSN: 22454586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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